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For over 40 years, seekers of vintage prints and esoteric publications have been happily lurking through the piles at San Francisco’s The Magazine, a Tenderloin staple that’s been dutifully operated by 70-year-old Robert Mainardi and 79-year-old Trent Dunphy in various locations since 1972. Now, in preparation for a time “when we are no longer here,” the [...]read more

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